The Boys’ Brandon Tate Claims AEW & Tony Khan Pulled The Outrunners From Indie Event

As noted before, former AEW commentator Kevin Kelly and former AEW and ROH talents The Tate Twins (Brandon & Brent Tate), former The Boys, filed a defamation lawsuit in September of 2024 against AEW, AEW CEO Tony Khan, and AEW/ROH commentator Ian Riccaboni. This lawsuit was ruled this past June to be officially moved to private arbitration.

The Boys were scheduled to compete in a tag team match against The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) for an indie event for ECC Wrestling on September 28th.

Brandon Tate provided an update on Wednesday on Facebook stating that The Boys’ upcoming match against The Outrunners and the upcoming show itself has been cancelled due to AEW and AEW CEO Tony Khan had pulled The Outrunners from the show.

During his rant, Tate blamed Khan for ruining Ring of Honor and for having a vendetta against him and his brother Brent’s wrestling careers.

🚩Match/Show cancelled🚩

It was announced that my brother and I were returning to the ring after being away for two years. Today I was informed that Tony Khan and All Elite Wrestling had removed the opponents from our match that was supposed to take place next weekend. Not only are they causing issues to continue outside of AEW where we no longer work and our personal life, but effecting the independent promotion, wrestlers, fans and everyone involved or planned on attending the show next weekend.

My brother and I have grinded for almost two years trying get our life back from the hole they left us in and were finally able to return to wrestling and make a little money for ourselves to try and bounce back. This dude has ruined over nearly two and a half decades of one of the best companies to ever exist in professional wrestling Ring of Honor and is now pulling talent from the independents just to get his way, but claiming his roster are “independent contractors”. I hope he realizes the company he once praised about changing wrestling for the better for EVERYONE is going completely backwards and this will one day all catch up to him.

I apologize on behalf of my brother and ECC Wrestling for anyone looking forward to seeing us wrestle and giving ECC Wrestling a bad rep like they did the both of us both.